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Ancient Legal History
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Roman law, which in its final form, as compiled in Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis, builds the foundation of all continental European legal systems, is most often studied in isolation, as the only source of our own legal thinking. Unlike this idealised Roman Law of the romanistic tradition, the actual Roman law of history arose and evolved as one among many other ancient legal traditions, older than it by centuries and even millenia. The course "Ancient Legal History" aims to explore these "other" legal traditions and their interplay with Roman law. Through examples taken from the Mesopotamic, Egyptian and Greek legal traditions, this course will focus on the actual legal practice of these ancient cultures, handed down to us through innumerable documents, particularly papyri from Greek and Roman Egypt. In addition, the course will also look at problems that arose as a result of Roman expansion: In particular, how the Roman jurists, the Roman courts and the Imperial bureaucracy addressed a legal practice that, unlike in Italy, was in the provinces often still dominated by such non-Roman legal traditions.
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Wednesday, 8:00-9:45 a.m.
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| Venue | KOL-F-121 |
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The script and the literature will be published at the beginning of every week. |
Provisional programme:
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| 22.09.2021 | Ancient Legal History: Introduction | ||
| I. Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Legal Traditions | |||
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29.09.2021
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The Cuneiform Legal Tradition |
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| 06.10.2021 | Continuation | see above | see above |
| 13.10.2021 | The Ancient Egyptian Legal Tradition | ||
| 20.10.2021 | The Greek Legal Tradition |
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| 27.10.2021 | Continuation |
see above |
see above |
| 03.11.2021 | The Hellenistic Legal Tradition | ||
| 10.11.2021 | Continuation | see above | see above |
| 17.11.2021 | Legal Pluralism in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt | Alonso (PDF, 1 MB) | Script 6 (PDF, 8 MB) |
| II. Sale and Acquisition | |||
| 24.11.2021 | Cuneiform Practice |
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| 01.12.2021 | Ancient Egyptian Practice: The Hieroglyphic and Hieratic Practice | ||
| 08.12.2021 | Ancient Egyptian Practice: The Demotic Phase | see above | |
| 15.12.2021 | Greek Practice: The Payment of the Price | ||
| 22.12.2021 | Continuation | see above | |
P. Giss. 40 (ca. 215 CE): the so-called Constitutio Antoniniana
